If the noise occurs when you shut off the water, then water hammer might be the culprit. In this case, the stream of water ...

Q: My toilet has taken leave of its senses and is flushing all by itself, during the day and at night. What’s going on? It’s weird and scary. Can I fix it? — Newton A: Ah, the phantom flusher strikes ...

Q. At my summer home in Indiana, I hear a loud tapping noise in the wall of my bathroom. The noise occurs when water is discharged from either the toilet or sink. (The tub discharges down a different ...

I was visiting my son's new home and someone upstairs flushed a toilet. It sounded like Niagara Falls across the ceiling and in the walls. I thought there had to be a leak. Did the builder or plumber ...

Q: Our home is heated by hot water (radiators, not radiant heat). The system is divided into five zones, each with its own thermostat. What causes pipes to "bang" when, as I assume, one of those ...

Your toilet has started to become noisy and you want to know why. The truth is there are a variety of reasons why this could be occurring, so we’ve broken it down into categories to help determine ...

Q: Four years ago, my wife and I moved into our smallish condo in a 1950s, 12-unit building in San Francisco. At the time, I was amazed by the fact that there was very little noise coming from our ...

Of course, in the grand scheme of recent global events, this is a very minor problem, but it’s really getting on my nerves. Why is my toilet gurgling? Equally important: what can I do to quiet the ...

Q. We are building a new home soon. The house will have a second story and a finished basement. Every time you flush a toilet in my existing home, it sounds like a waterfall in the wall. The builder ...